Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Also, the type of language being used in this Chamber is unacceptable. I would have preferred if this time had been used to discuss the hospitals trolley crisis. There were 45 people on trolleys in Galway today. We have a housing crisis and only 14 houses being built this year in Galway. I do not attempt to be parochial because this is what is happening all over the country. Turning people against politicians and saying we earn too much is simply a sideshow, a distraction and an attempt to divide and conquer people. The public is not that foolish. Everybody in this country deserves a decent wage and a decent living. It is the role of us on this side of the House to hold the system to account.

I despise this type of politics. It is utterly divisive for the sake of populism.

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